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CONTENTS

FOREWORD

A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

JANUARY

FEBRUARY

MARCH

APRIL

MAY

JUNE

JULY

AUGUST

SEPTEMBER

OCTOBER

NOVEMBER

DECEMBER

REFERENCES

FOREWORD

FOR MUCH OF MY LIFE, especially in my work as a motivational speaker, coach, and author over the past 15 years, I’ve been a bit obsessed with quotes. I display them throughout my house, include them on calendars, and regularly post them on social media. For me, it doesn’t matter where the quote comes from—an author, artist, politician, comedian, movie, book, teacher, scholar, or even a friend or family member. If it resonates with me, I’ll take it . . . and I’ll probably want to share it with you.

In the pages that follow, you’ll be inspired by a unique and diverse list of quotes—from people like Vincent van Gogh, Tina Fey, Babe Ruth, and Elon Musk and from sources like the Quran, the Bible, and Winnie-the-Pooh. The truth is, we can find wisdom and inspiration from many different people and places; we just need to be looking for it.

From my experience working as a coach for many years, I understand the power of daily practices. From meditation and exercise to journal writing and much more, my own daily practices are essential to my life and well-being. And, in working with people from all walks of life, I’ve seen how transformational simple daily practices can be. This book is meant to be part of your daily practice; you can allow the power of each quote to impact how you start or end your day, and what you focus on.

Inspiration is vital to just about every aspect of our lives, yet it can be elusive. With more technology and devices in our lives than ever before, it’s easy to get distracted, to remain insatiably busy, and to lose touch with our inspiration. If we aren’t mindful, we can get caught up in the drama, negativity, and hyper pace of the world in which we live. These simple, but powerful, quotes can help open your mind and heart and remind you what truly matters in life, which is no small thing.

When I was writing my first book a number of years ago, I would often get stuck—my fears, doubts, and insecurities would take over and make it difficult for me to move forward. I found a few healthy (and many unhealthy) ways to deal with my bouts of writer’s block (a.k.a. lack of inspiration), which at times was just plain old procrastination (a.k.a. fear).

One of the most productive techniques I found to deal with these issues was to search the Internet for inspirational quotes. Sometimes I was able to take the quotes I found and use them in my book; other times, they would help me expand my mind, think about something in a different way, or even just laugh. One weekend in the summer of 2006, as I was struggling to finish a chapter of that first book, I came across a quote I had not seen before, but that made me laugh out loud:

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
—Oscar Wilde

This poignant quote resonated with me at the time because it made me realize I was trying to do what I thought I was supposed to do—write a “good book”—instead of actually writing from my heart and sharing my own unique perspective. It left such a strong impression that I included it inside that first book, and used it as the title of my second book, which came out just a few years later.

Enjoy this book! Allow its wisdom, wit, and inspiration to sink in . . . and soak them up as much as you can. In a world where it’s easy to find cynicism, resignation, negativity, and constant complaining, it sometimes takes a radical act of courage and self-care to focus on inspiration and what truly matters.

Mike Robbins

Novato, California

October 2015

A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

INSPIRATION IS ALL AROUND US . . . but it’s nice to have some of its gems contained in one place. Within these pages, you’ll find a powerful collection of quotes from great minds, like Albert Einstein and Oscar Wilde, as well as from some classic books, films, speeches, and more. We’ve all known the experience of reading an unforgettable book or hearing an inspiring interview, or savored the lyrics to a moving song that seemed to be speaking directly to us, to be made just for us right then, in that moment. These happy coincidences allow us to understand that, while life’s journey seems sometimes solitary, there are others who have walked the same path and even stumbled in the same places along the way—including the best and brightest.

This diverse collection of quotes will infuse your day with appreciation, encouragement, and wisdom. Take this book with you as you start or end your day, or whenever you need an uplifting pick-me-up. Although the quotes are aligned to days of the year, there’s no right or wrong way to read it. Dive in from the beginning, read it backward, or pick a page at random—no matter your method, you’ll receive the same nuggets of inspiration covering a wide range of themes, from embracing creativity to achieving gratitude to falling in love.

Where appropriate, you’ll find quotes tailored to all of the major U.S. holidays, and even some of the little ones too (like April Fool’s Day and Groundhog Day) as well as some international religious holidays.

No matter your circumstances, whether you’re enduring a prolonged rough patch or simply seeking some moments of quiet

THIS IS WHERE IT ALL BEGINS. EVERYTHING STARTS HERE, TODAY.

DAVID NICHOLLS, AUTHOR

Even when the world throws its worst and then turns its back, there is still always hope.

PITTACUS LORE, AUTHOR

If life is a bowl of cherris, what’s inside of it?

JOSH STERN, AUTHOR

WE HAVE WITHIN US AN EXTRAORDINARY CAPACITY FOR LOVE, JOY, AND UNSHAKABLE FREEDOM.

JACK KORNFIELD, AUTHOR

The reason birds can fly and we can’t is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

J. M. BARRIE, AUTHOR

Sadness is more or less like a head cold—with patience, it passes.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER, AUTHOR

WHAT GOOD IS WARMTH WITHOUT COLD TO GIVE IT SWEETNESS?

JOHN STEINBECK, AUTHOR

May you be filled with loving kindness. May you be well. May you be peaceful and at ease. May you be happy.

ANONYMOUS

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.

GORDON PARKS, PHOTOGRAPHER

Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.

JOANNE HARRIS, AUTHOR

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

JOHN LE CARRÉ, AUTHOR

If there is at least one person you’ve helped in life, then your life has been worthwhile.

L. SYDNEY ABEL, AUTHOR

Above all else, guard your heart for it affects everything else you do.

ANONYMOUS

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

ALEXANDER HAMILTON, U.S. FOUNDING FATHER

Everyone knows that ice cream is worth the trouble of being cold. Like all things virtuous, you have to suffer to gain the reward.

BRANDON SANDERSON, AUTHOR

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

LEO TOLSTOY, AUTHOR

I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you. . . . We are in charge of our attitudes.

CHARLES R. SWINDOLL, PASTOR

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST

THERE IS A TIME FOR WORDS AND A TIME FOR SLEEP.

HOMER, AUTHOR

THE EARLY BIRD GETS THE WORM, BUT THE SECOND MOUSE GETS THE CHEESE.

ANONYMOUS

You can’t fix things with a hug, but you can’t make them any worse, either.

DEAN KOONTZ, AUTHOR

The clouds above us join and separate, The breeze in the courtyard leaves and returns. Life is like that, so why not relax? Who can stop us from celebrating?

LU YU, THE SAGE OF TEA

Make a fist. Lightly. Leave enough room for a breath to pass through. Good. Good. All magic proceeds from breath. Remember that.

CLIVE BARKER, AUTHOR

My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?

DAVID MITCHELL, AUTHOR

It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view.

DALAI LAMA, BUDDHIST MONK

IT’S AMAZING HOW A LITTLE TOMORROW CAN MAKE UP FOR A WHOLE LOT OF YESTERDAY.

JOHN GUARE, PLAYWRIGHT

Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands—and then eat just one of the pieces.

JUDITH VIORST, AUTHOR

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

ANONYMOUS

The world’s a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it.

SOCRATES, PHILOSOPHER

After all, there are no mistakes in life, only lessons.

LYNDA RENHAM, AUTHOR

Someday this upside-down world will be turned right-side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will use our brief lives on earth positioning ourselves for the turn.

RANDY ALCORN, AUTHOR

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

VIRGINIA WOOLF, AUTHOR

To wish to be young again and to have the benefit of one’s learned and acquired existence is not at all to wish for a repeat performance, or a Groundhog Day.

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, AUTHOR

Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.

SARAH DESSEN, AUTHOR

Some quick advice for success in life: Don’t be afraid, be amazing.

DR. CUTHBERT SOUP, AUTHOR

From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.

TONY HILLERMAN, AUTHOR

Be like a duck, paddling and working very hard inside the water, but what everyone sees is a smiling and calm face.

MANOJ ARORA, AUTHOR

Don’t walk in front of me . . . I may not follow Don’t walk behind me . . . I may not lead Walk beside me . . . just be my friend.

ANONYMOUS

A KITE ONLY FLIES IF IT’S TETHERED.

VICTOR ROBERT LEE, AUTHOR

TRUE LOVE IS LIKE LITTLE ROSES, SWEET, FRAGRANT IN SMALL DOSES.

ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES, AUTHOR

We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming—well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.

AMY TAN, AUTHOR

When you do talk to people, share what you are. Stop focusing on all the things that you aren’t.

DAN PEARCE, AUTHOR

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, U.S. PRESIDENT

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

SAMUEL JOHNSON, AUTHOR

And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

MOTHER TERESA, CATHOLIC MISSIONARY

BELIEVE YOU CAN AND YOU’RE HALFWAY THERE.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT, U.S. PRESIDENT

If you’re not having fun, you’re doing something wrong.

GROUCHO MARX, COMEDIAN

Through Compassion and Care we are compelled to random acts of kindness and demonstrations of love.

JEAN HAMILTON-FORD, AUTHOR

Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.

PAULO COELHO, AUTHOR

A PERSON WHO NEVER MADE A MISTAKE NEVER TRIED ANYTHING NEW.

ALBERT EINSTEIN, PHYSICIST

What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.

CHARLES BUKOWSKI, POET

The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight.

M.F.K. FISHER, FOOD WRITER

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

EPICURUS, PHILOSOPHER

TRULY HAPPY MEMORIES ALWAYS LIVE ON, SHINING. OVER TIME, ONE BY ONE, THEY COME BACK TO LIFE.

BANANA YOSHIMOTO, AUTHOR

There are always surprises. Life may be inveterately grim and the surprises disproportionately unpleasant, but it would be hardly worth living if there were no exceptions, no sunny days, no acts of random kindness.

T. C. BOYLE, AUTHOR

I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.

HERMANN HESSE, AUTHOR

THERE ARE MANY KINDS OF JOY, BUT THEY ALL LEAD TO ONE: THE JOY TO BE LOVED.

MICHAEL ENDE, AUTHOR

Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing.

EMMA DONOGHUE, AUTHOR

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.

MAHATMA GANDHI, ACTIVIST

I’m taking the leap, I’m learning to fly.

NIHAR SHARMA, AUTHOR

One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.

STEVE JOBS, COFOUNDER OF APPLE INC.

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

JOHN GREEN, AUTHOR

The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.

DR. STEVE MARABOLI, BEHAVIORAL SCIENTIST

NEVER ACCEPT LIMITATIONS.

JAKE BYRNE, ATHLETE

I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.

BEATRIX POTTER, AUTHOR

I’ve never met a problem a proper cupcake couldn’t fix.

SARAH OCKLER, AUTHOR

If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can’t survive.

BRENÉ BROWN, AUTHOR

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY, AUTHOR

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

TONI CADE BAMBARA, AUTHOR AND ACTIVIST

You are the sky. Everything else–it’s just the weather.

PEMA CHÖDRÖN, BUDDHIST TEACHER AND AUTHOR

It’s best to have your tools with you. If you don’t, you’re apt to find something you didn’t expect and get discouraged.

STEPHEN KING, AUTHOR

Don’t be ashamed to weep; ’tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water.

BRIAN JACQUES, AUTHOR

Not everyone is your brother or sister in the faith, but everyone is your neighbor, and you must love your neighbor.

TIMOTHY KELLER, PASTOR

THINKING VERY OFTEN RESEMBLES NAPPING, BUT THE INTENT IS DIFFERENT.

JANET EVANOVICH, AUTHOR

The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.

WENDELL BERRY, AUTHOR

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, AUTHOR

St. Patrick’s Day is an enchanted time—a day to begin transforming winter’s dreams into summer’s magic.

ANONYMOUS

There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else.

VERONICA ROTH, AUTHOR

Life is worth living as long as there’s a laugh in it.

L. M. MONTGOMERY, AUTHOR

I can still bring into my body the joy I felt at seeing the first trillium of spring, which seemed to be telling me, “Never give up hope, spring will come.”

JESSICA STERN, AUTHOR

As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON, AUTHOR

THE PAST IS ALWAYS TENSE, THE FUTURE PERFECT.

ZADIE SMITH, AUTHOR

You come into this world alone and die alone, but there’s a really long stretch in the middle that can be extraordinarily meaningful and even fun with the right people. And when it’s not fun, they’ll be with you, too.

JULIE KLAM, AUTHOR

Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don’t ignore that critic but don’t give it more attention than it deserves.

MICHAEL IAN BLACK, COMEDIAN

NOT ALL THOSE WHO WANDER ARE LOST.

J.R.R. TOLKIEN, AUTHOR

Life is indeed colorful. We can feel in the pink one day, with our bank balances comfortably in the black, and the grass seemingly no greener on the other side of the fence. Then out of the blue, something tiresome happens that makes us see red, turn ashen white, even purple with rage. Maybe controlling our varying emotions is just “color management” by another name.

ALEX MORRITT, AUTHOR

Things happen, and nothing is for sure, but you just have to keep going, believing that one day, you’ll find something that is.

A. J. DARKHOLME, AUTHOR

THE MOST BASIC WAY TO GET SOMEONE’S ATTENTION IS THIS: BREAK A PATTERN.

CHIP HEATH AND DAN HEATH, AUTHORS

Yesterday is but a dream, Tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope.

KALIDASA, POET

Home is everything you can walk to.

JERRY SPINELLI, AUTHOR

AND THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS TOO MUCH BACKUP.

TERRY PRATCHETT AND STEPHEN BAXTER, AUTHORS

Any fool can make a rule

And any fool will mind it.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU, AUTHOR

If there is to be reconciliation, first there must be truth.

TIMOTHY B. TYSON, AUTHOR

Life throws challenges and every challenge comes with rainbows and lights to conquer it.

AMIT RAY, AUTHOR

That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend, and a good library.

APHRA BEHN, POET

I think love is caramel. Sweet and fragrant; always welcome. It is the gentle golden color of a setting harvest sun; the warmth of a squeezed embrace; the easy melting of two souls into one and a taste that lingers even when everything else has melted away. Once tasted it is never forgotten.

JENNY COLGAN, AUTHOR

And human will is the strongest force ever created. There are those born to succeed and those who are determined to succeed. The former fall into it, and the latter pursue it all costs. They won’t be denied. Nothing daunts them.

SHERRILYN KENYON, AUTHOR

It’s high time you were shown that you really don’t know all there is to be known.

DR. SEUSS, AUTHOR

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can.

YANN MARTEL, AUTHOR

THE POSITIVE THINKER SEES THE INVISIBLE, FEELS THE INTANGIBLE, AND ACHIEVES THE IMPOSSIBLE.

WINSTON CHURCHILL, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER

Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.

ALPHONSE KARR, AUTHOR

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

GAUTAMA BUDDHA, BUDDHIST SAGE

Friendship is the best kind of ship.

JENNIFER LANE, AUTHOR

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

THOMAS JEFFERSON, U.S. PRESIDENT

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

CORMAC MCCARTHY, AUTHOR

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.

JOE ABERCROMBIE, AUTHOR

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.

RICHARD PAUL EVANS, AUTHOR

Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, U.S. PRESIDENT

DOGS MAKE GREAT SHRINKS. NO JUDGMENT, NO CO-PAYMENT.

ANDI BROWN, AUTHOR

When someone steals another’s clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not?

BASIL OF CAESAREA, SAINT

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.

ABRAHAM VERGHESE, PHYSICIAN

It doesn’t matter what you say you believe—it only matters what you do.

ROBERT FULGHUM, AUTHOR

PASSOVER IS A LIVING PICTURE OF HOW SALVATION IS PROPERLY OBTAINED, AS WE SHALL SEE.

ZOLA LEVITT, MINISTER

A picnic is more than eating a meal; it is a pleasurable state of mind.

DEEDEE STOVEL, AUTHOR

There will always be detours in the fascinating game called life. Find the path to your heart’s desires, and stay on course.

ELIZABETH PARKER, AUTHOR

A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear.

EDMOND ROSTAND, POET

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

JOHN JAMES AUDUBON, NATURALIST

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO, SAINT

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, POET

THE BEST TIME TO PLANT A TREE WAS 20 YEARS AGO. THE NEXT BEST TIME IS NOW.

CHINESE PROVERB

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

OSCAR WILDE, AUTHOR

We have to recognize that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.

BELL HOOKS AND CORNEL WEST, AUTHORS

Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

JOHN LUBBOCK, SCIENTIST

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.

CHARLOTTE BRONTË, AUTHOR

MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU.

STAR WARS, EPISODE IV: A NEW HOPE

Faith lightens the path your shadowed mind has to walk.

MICHELLE HORST, AUTHOR

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

G. K. CHESTERTON, AUTHOR

There is only what you want and what happens. There is only grabbing on and holding tight in the darkness.

LAUREN OLIVER, AUTHOR

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

JEWISH PROVERB

If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

J. K. ROWLING, AUTHOR

Once you have mastered a technique, you hardly need look at a recipe again, and can take off on your own.

JULIA CHILD, CHEF

THERE WAS NOTHING IN THE DARK THAT WASN’T THERE WHEN THE LIGHTS WERE ON.

ROD SERLING, SCREENWRITER

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration.

AMELIA EDITH HUDDLESTON BARR, AUTHOR

Curb your fretting, tadpole, or the frog of your future will fail to croak.

PAUL COLLINS, AUTHOR

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, PLAYWRIGHT

And I will never again underestimate the power of anticipation. There is no better boost in the present than an invitation into the future.

CAROLINE KEPNES, AUTHOR

To be poor and be without trees, is to be the most starved human being in the world. To be poor and have trees, is to be completely rich in ways that money can never buy.

CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTÉS, AUTHOR

OLD AGE IS A WONDERFUL DISGUISE.

KATHERINE APPLEGATE, AUTHOR

Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn’t happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones?

ELIZABETH SCOTT, AUTHOR

Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.

HELEN KELLER, AUTHOR AND ACTIVIST

Life is no different than the weather. Not only is it unpredictable, but it shows us a new perspective of the world every day.

SUZY KASSEM, AUTHOR

THE WATER DOESN’T KNOW HOW OLD YOU ARE.

DARA TORRES, OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST

Every single day I’ll keep you with me, no matter how far from me you are.

S. C. STEPHENS, AUTHOR

What do you do with all your pennies? I give them away. It’s good to spread your luck around and it always comes back to you.

FANNIE FLAGG, ACTOR

Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.

GAIL TSUKIYAMA, AUTHOR

A woman with confidence is hypnotic. A smile is mesmerizing. Presence, openness, a sense of humor—these are all things that make a woman attractive.

JESSICA ORTNER, AUTHOR

Sometimes you have to work hard for what you want. Sometimes, hard work is what makes it precious.

UTE CARBONE, AUTHOR

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better.

GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG, SCIENTIST

IT’S TIME TO START LIVING THE LIFE YOU’VE IMAGINED.

HENRY JAMES, AUTHOR

Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of unknown things. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality.

ISABEL ALLENDE, AUTHOR

I have to live if I want to be remembered.

SUZANNE YOUNG, AUTHOR

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

WILLIAM HAZLITT, ESSAYIST

PAIN IS INEVITABLE. SUFFERING IS OPTIONAL.

HARUKI MURAKAMI, AUTHOR

Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, AUTHOR

I want all of us to move into the future with hope and with the spirit of oneness and unity.

JOYCE BANDA, POLITICIAN

Through pain I’ve learned to comfort suffering men.

VIRGIL, POET

It’s one thing knowing you have people cheering you on, yet another to know they have walked in your footsteps.

CHRISTINE MAGNUS MOORE, AUTHOR

In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.

SHERYL SANDBERG, TECHNOLOGY EXECUTIVE

Patience is a conquering virtue.

GEOFFREY CHAUCER, POET

THAT WAS WHAT A BEST FRIEND DID: HOLD UP A MIRROR AND SHOW YOU YOUR HEART.

KRISTIN HANNAH, AUTHOR

If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important rule of beauty. Who cares?

TINA FEY, COMEDIAN

Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.

VINCENT VAN GOGH, PAINTER

It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.

BABE RUTH, ATHLETE

WHAT WE PLAY IS LIFE.

LOUIS ARMSTRONG, MUSICIAN

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

ELBERT HUBBARD, AUTHOR

If you talk about it, it’s a dream, if you envision it, it’s possible, but if you schedule it, it’s real.

ANTHONY ROBBINS, MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER

It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.

TRUMAN CAPOTE, AUTHOR

NO GROUP PICTURE IS GOING TO HAVE THE POWER OF AN INDIVIDUAL PORTRAIT.

ANNIE LEIBOVITZ, PHOTOGRAPHER

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

BOB DYLAN, MUSICIAN

Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women.

NORA EPHRON, AUTHOR

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

HARPER LEE, AUTHOR

Don’t think the summer is over, even when roses droop and turn brown and the stars shift position in the sky.

ALICE HOFFMAN, AUTHOR

YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO RECOGNIZE YOUR TRUTHS IN THE DAYLIGHT BEFORE YOU CAN FIND THEM IN THE DARK.

KELLI JAE BAELI, AUTHOR

Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled.

THE QURAN

You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

FRANK MCCOURT, AUTHOR

THE UNIVERSE DOESN’T ALLOW PERFECTION.

STEPHEN HAWKING, PHYSICIST

Like I’m always telling my brothers, if you gonna go into history, you can’t do it with a hate attitude.

DEBORAH LACKS, AS QUOTED IN THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS

Hard work is only a prison sentence when you lack motivation.

MALCOLM GLADWELL, AUTHOR

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS, SOCIAL ACTIVIST

What you believe has more power than what you dream or wish or hope for. You become what you believe.

OPRAH WINFREY, MEDIA PERSONALITY

Not everything has to have a point. Some things just are.

JUDY BLUME, AUTHOR

The more people that meet each other, the better it is for all of them.

L. SPRAGUE DE CAMP AND FLETCHER PRATT, AUTHORS

I HAVE LEARNED THAT TO BE WITH THOSE I LIKE IS ENOUGH.

WALT WHITMAN, POET

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

JOHN MUIR, NATURALIST

Good ideas are always crazy until they’re not.

ELON MUSK, INVENTOR

INDEPENDENCE IS MY HAPPINESS, THE WORLD IS MY COUNTRY, AND MY RELIGION IS TO DO GOOD.

THOMAS PAYNE, POLITICAL ACTIVIST

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL, INVENTOR

They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

ANDY WARHOL, ARTIST

A man’s daughter is his heart. Just with feet, walking out in the world.

MAT JOHNSON, AUTHOR

It does not take many words to tell the truth.

SITTING BULL, LAKOTA CHIEF

Please don’t be offended if I preach to you a while, Tears are out of place in eyes that were meant to smile.

BUD DESYLVA, SONGWRITER

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

CHARLES DICKENS, AUTHOR

LOVE IS A GOOD THING ON A BAD DAY, WHEN THE LAST THING YOU WANT IS TO BE CHEERED UP.

CHAD SUGG, MUSICIAN

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

JACK KEROUAC, AUTHOR

Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.

TONI MORRISON, AUTHOR

A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.

NELSON MANDELA, PRESIDENT OF SOUTH AFRICA

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

KAHLIL GIBRAN, AUTHOR

IF I’M SINCERE TODAY, WHAT DOES IT MATTER IF I REGRET IT TOMORROW?

JOSÉ SARAMAGO, AUTHOR

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring …

ALICE WALKER, AUTHOR

When you stare at someone long enough, you discover their humanity.

AS GOOD AS IT GETS

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

VINCE LOMBARDI, ATHLETE

I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either. Nobody goes faster than the legs they have. If where I want to go is far away, I’m not there in an instant.

FERNANDO PESSOA AS ALBERTO CAEIRO, POET

The only way we will survive is by being kind. The only way we can get by in this world is through the help we receive from others. No one can do it alone, no matter how great the machines are.

AMY POEHLER, COMEDIAN

I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.

CATHERINE THE GREAT, RULER OF RUSSIA

I would like to be remembered, well … the Mexicans have a phrase, Feo fuerte y formal. Which means he was ugly, strong, and had dignity.

JOHN WAYNE, ACTOR

PARENTHOOD … IT’S ABOUT GUIDING THE NEXT GENERATION, AND FORGIVING THE LAST.

PETER KRAUSE, ACTOR

Life isn’t a merry-go-round, it’s a roller coaster. Life won’t always be smooth, it may not always be pretty, but it will be an adventure—one not to be missed.

ROBERT A. GLOVER, AUTHOR

Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.

IAN FLEMING, AUTHOR

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn’t mean he lacks vision.

STEVIE WONDER, MUSICIAN

When an enemy praises an enemy, the smart man listens.

BUFFALO SOLDIERS

A LITTLE NONSENSE NOW AND THEN, IS RELISHED BY THE WISEST MEN.

ROALD DAHL, AUTHOR

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

EDGAR ALLAN POE, AUTHOR

People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

ELIZABETH GILBERT, AUTHOR

People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but it doesn’t stop you from having your own opinion.

ANNE FRANK, DIARIST

Never be bored, and you will never be boring.

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, DIPLOMAT AND ACTIVIST

Carry out a random act of kindness with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what’s said and what’s done.

BEOWULF

AS COAL PRESSURED INTO PEARLS BY OUR WEIGHTY EXISTENCE. BEAUTY THAT AROSE OUT OF PAIN.

SUZANNE COLLINS, AUTHOR

Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation.

RAQUEL CEPEDA, JOURNALIST

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY, AUTHOR

Life is so much richer, so very much more meaningful, if you plant yourself in a place that will nourish you.

ANN SHAYNE, AUTHOR

THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK. READ BEFORE YOU THINK.

FRAN LEBOWITZ, AUTHOR

We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work.

THOMAS EDISON, INVENTOR

We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.

GLORIA STEINEM, FEMINIST AUTHOR

LET US LEARN TO SHOW OUR FRIENDSHIP FOR A MAN WHEN HE IS ALIVE AND NOT AFTER HE IS DEAD.

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, AUTHOR

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

PABLO PICASSO, PAINTER

One of the things my parents taught me, and I’ll always be grateful for the gift, is to not ever let anybody else define me; that for me to define myself.

WILMA MANKILLER, CHEROKEE CHIEF

Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens.

TONY DELISO, AUTHOR

CHANCE RUNS LIKE A RIVER THROUGH ALL OUR LIVES, AND BEING PREPARED FOR SURPRISE IS THE BEST WE CAN DO.

KENNETH OPPEL, AUTHOR

Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

JAMES JOYCE, AUTHOR

For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard.

JAMES BALDWIN, AUTHOR

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

AMELIA EARHART, AVIATOR

Memories remind us that every moment of our lives, even the most tragic, has contributed to our strength. We’ve gotten through. We’re still here.

WILLIE NELSON, MUSICIAN

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR, FEMINIST THEORIST

THE GREATEST SELF IS A PEACEFUL SMILE, THAT ALWAYS SEES THE WORLD SMILING BACK.

BRYANT MCGILL AND JENNI YOUNG, AUTHORS

It’s the questions we can’t answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he’ll look for his own answers.

PATRICK ROTHFUSS, AUTHOR

And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.

THE BIBLE

To err is human, to forgive, divine.

ALEXANDER POPE, POET

I do not wish [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT, AUTHOR

Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over.

NICOLE SOBON, AUTHOR

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

ANDRÉ GIDE, AUTHOR

I MAY NOT HAVE GONE WHERE I INTENDED TO GO, BUT I THINK I HAVE ENDED UP WHERE I NEEDED TO BE.

DOUGLAS ADAMS, AUTHOR

If you remain calm in the midst of great chaos, it is the surest guarantee that it will eventually subside.

JULIE ANDREWS, ACTOR

Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It’s hard work that makes things happen. It’s hard work that creates change.

SHONDA RHIMES, SCREENWRITER

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

MARCUS AURELIUS, ROMAN EMPEROR

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

S. G. TALLENTYRE, AUTHOR

IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN EASY TO HATE AND DESTROY. TO BUILD AND TO CHERISH IS MUCH MORE DIFFICULT.

QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

RABINDRANATH TAGORE, AUTHOR

He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.

FRANCIS OF ASSISI, SAINT

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain. . . .To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices—today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

KEVYN AUCOIN, MAKEUP ARTIST

Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.

LAUREN DESTEFANO, AUTHOR

How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths.

UMBERTO ECO, AUTHOR

To understand all is to forgive all.

EVELYN WAUGH, AUTHOR

BE LESS CURIOUS ABOUT PEOPLE AND MORE CURIOUS ABOUT IDEAS.

MARIE CURIE, CHEMIST

Remember the hours after September 11 when we came together as one. . . . It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us.

JOHN KERRY, U.S. SENATOR

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

RICHARD BACH, AUTHOR

It’s special, grandparents and grandchildren. . . . Gone are the bonds of guilt and responsibility that burden the maternal relationship. The way to love is free.

KATE MORTON, AUTHOR

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, AUTHOR

In politics as in philosophy, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed that which embraces most others, is to be honest and just ourselves and to exact it from others.

GEORGE WASHINGTON, U.S. PRESIDENT

THERE ARE YEARS THAT ASK QUESTIONS AND YEARS THAT ANSWER.

ZORA NEALE HURSTON, AUTHOR

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

JACK LONDON, AUTHOR

The soul is healed by being with children.

FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY, AUTHOR

There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.

GARTH STEIN, AUTHOR

We are not simply in the universe, we are part of it. We are born from it. One might even say we have been empowered by the universe to figure itself out—and we have only just begun.

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON, ASTROPHYSICIST

In times of stress, the best thing we can do for our children (and for each other) is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.

FRED ROGERS, FROM MISTER ROGERS’ NEIGHBORHOOD

That old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air. . . . Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year’s mistakes and failures had been wiped clean by summer.

WALLACE STEGNER, AUTHOR

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

MARTIN LUTHER, THEOLOGIAN

Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.

MR. MAGORIUM’S WONDER EMPORIUM

Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.

NED VIZZINI, AUTHOR

You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct, and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.

NAPOLEON HILL, AUTHOR

Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You’re given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself.

MADELEINE L’ENGLE, AUTHOR

Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.

MAYA ANGELOU, AUTHOR

We must assume every event has significance and contains a message that somehow pertains to our questions. This especially applies to what we used to call bad things. . . . The challenge is to find the silver lining in every event, no matter how negative.

JAMES REDFIELD, AUTHOR

In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.

ISHMAEL BEAH, AUTHOR

DON’T JUDGE EACH DAY BY THE HARVEST YOU REAP BUT BY THE SEEDS THAT YOU PLANT.

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, AUTHOR

You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

THE MANY ADVENTURES OF WINNIE THE POOH

Pain, pleasure, and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence.

FRIDA KAHLO, ARTIST

Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.

PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY, COMPOSER

AT FIRST, DREAMS SEEM IMPOSSIBLE, THEN IMPROBABLE, AND EVENTUALLY INEVITABLE.

CHRISTOPHER REEVE, ACTOR

When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.

MALALA YOUSAFZAI, ACTIVIST

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn’t anything you can’t do if you want to.

JIM HENSON, PUPPETEER

I must work harder to achieve my goal of not seeking approval from those whose approval I’m not even sure is important to me.

LAUREN GRAHAM, ACTOR

IF I DIE TOMORROW, NEXT YEAR OR WHENEVER IT MIGHT BE, I’LL KNOW I’VE HAD A GREAT LIFE.

MAGIC JOHNSON, ATHLETE

Prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

AMBROSE BIERCE, JOURNALIST

If you don’t know what you’re willing to die for, then you don’t know what you’re living for.

NOAH WEINBERG, RABBI

IT’S ENOUGH FOR ME TO BE SURE THAT YOU AND I EXIST AT THIS MOMENT.

GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ, AUTHOR

You couldn’t erase the past. You couldn’t even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.

ANN BRASHARES, AUTHOR

Sometimes you can learn, even from a bad experience. By coping you become stronger. The pain does not go away, but it becomes manageable.

SOMALY MAM, ADVOCATE

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride.

KAREN HORNEY, PSYCHOANALYST

Peace of mind comes when we exercise our right to be honest, especially with ourselves.

JACK R. ROSE, AUTHOR

When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. . . . You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift.

JUSTINA CHEN, AUTHOR

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

HORACE, POET

Pay attention to what’s happening around you. Read the book before you see the movie. Remember, though you, alone, are responsible for your own happiness, it’s still okay to feel responsible for someone else’s.

MICHAEL J. FOX, ACTOR

People often belittle the place where they were born but heaven can be found in the most unlikely places.

MITCH ALBOM, AUTHOR

We are, all of us, exploring a world none of us understands . . . searching for a more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating mode of living . . . for the integrity, the courage to be whole, living in relation to one another in the full poetry of existence.

HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, U.S. SENATOR

RECEIVE WITH SIMPLICITY EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS TO YOU.

RASHI, BIBLE SCHOLAR

Too many people out there tell us what we can and cannot do but . . . they don’t know who we are, what’s put in us.

ALEX ROGERS, AUTHOR

Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.

WASHINGTON IRVING, AUTHOR

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all. Be patient and tough; one day this pain will be useful to you.

OVID, POET

Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.

SAADI, POET

We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be.

MURIEL BARBERY, AUTHOR

How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it’s so slow and sweet and everlasting.

GRAHAM SWIFT, AUTHOR

If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.

DEEPAK CHOPRA, AUTHOR

WITHOUT INSPIRATION, WE’RE ALL LIKE A BOX OF MATCHES THAT WILL NEVER BE LIT.

DAVID ARCHULETA, VOCALIST

Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.

MARY SHELLEY, AUTHOR

Facing your fears robs them of their power.

MARK BURNETT, TELEVISION PRODUCER

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating.

JOHN WOODEN, COACH

There are darknesses in life and there are lights. You are one of the lights.

BRAM STOKER, AUTHOR

The greenest of pastures are right here on earth.

JENNIFER DONNELLY, AUTHOR

To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.

HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN, AUTHOR

I’ve come to realize that sometimes, what you love most is what you have to fight the hardest to keep.

KIRSTEN HUBBARD, AUTHOR

Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.

THOMAS MANN, AUTHOR

Remember this, where there is life there is hope. You’re alive. Embrace this, because you can do anything while there is breath in your body.

LOLA JAYE, AUTHOR

The greatest danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

MICHELANGELO, ARTIST

The joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you.

JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, POET

On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free.

DAN LIPINSKI, CONGRESSMAN

I didn’t know I had it in me. There’s more to all of us than we realize. Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think. We’re capable of so much more than we allow ourselves to believe.

QUEEN LATIFAH, PERFORMER

If I never got to make a living doing what I loved, I’d still do it—for fun and for free.

SUSAN E. ISAACS, AUTHOR

If pain is a pot of boiling water, humor can be the rising steam.

CAMERON CONAWAY, MMA FIGHTER

I am not afraid of tomorrow for I have seen yesterday, I have today and I know Him who holds tomorrow so I know tomorrow will be beautiful for me.

JAACHYNMA N. E. AGU, AUTHOR

SEEK YOUR OWN ANSWERS IN LIFE, AND NOT WHAT OTHERS DICTATE TO YOU.

JEMINA AKHTAR, AUTHOR

I learned long ago that when change comes, you gotta slow down and take note of it. In the midst of that change is all the possibility in the world.

BERTICE BERRY, SOCIOLOGIST

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

ARTHUR ASHE, TENNIS PLAYER; AND ARNOLD RAMPERSAD, AUTHOR

The reason most people give up so fast is that they look at how far they still have to go, instead of how far they have come.

ANONYMOUS

Motivation gets you going; inspiration keeps you going.

TODD STOCKER, AUTHOR

What we can change is our perceptions, which have the effect of changing everything.

DONNA QUESADA, AUTHOR

What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower, or winged air.

THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH, EDITOR

The stationary condition is the beginning of the end.

HENRI-FRÉDÉRIC AMIEL, PHILOSOPHER

To have more, you must genuinely thank more.

MADDY MALHOTRA, AUTHOR

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

DESMOND TUTU, SOCIAL RIGHTS ACTIVIST AND RETIRED ANGLICAN BISHOP

IMAGINATION IS THE TRUE MAGIC CARPET.

NORMAN VINCENT PEALE, AUTHOR

Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.

KINGSLEY AMIS, AUTHOR

No one should ever despair because the entrance to his or her chosen career path is clogged. There is an ancient saying: “The persistent drip wears through stone.”

KENTETSU TAKAMORI, AUTHOR

The heart of a person only beats when it’s surrounded by blood, by family.

ERICA GOROS, AUTHOR

Most ideas are born and lost in isolation.

SCOTT BELSKY, AUTHOR

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

THURGOOD MARSHALL, SUPREME COURT JUSTICE

Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence.

MAURICE CHEVALIER, ACTOR

Real love is a humble receptivity of a silent heart that is prepared to melt and merge.

BANANI RAY AND AMIT RAY, AUTHORS

YOUR BODY IS NOT A TEMPLE, IT’S AN AMUSEMENT PARK. ENJOY THE RIDE.

ANTHONY BOURDAIN, CHEF

No matter how talented you are, if you don’t persist the probability of achieving your goals is extremely small.

CAMILLA DORAND, AUTHOR

If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.

MILTON BERLE, ACTOR

When you get older, you know that life’s mysteries are revealed in the fullness of time. All you have to do is wait, watch, and be amazed.

LINDA GRAY, AUTHOR

IT’S NEVER OVER TILL IT’S REALLY OVER IN YOUR MIND.

SANDHYA JANE, AUTHOR

It can’t be epic if there’s no challenge to it.

JENNIFER E. SMITH, AUTHOR

Today, people struggle to find what’s real. Everything has become so synthetic that a lot of people, all they want is to grasp onto hope.

WYCLEF JEAN, MUSICIAN

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering—because you can’t take it all in at once.

AUDREY HEPBURN, ACTOR

WELL-BEHAVED WOMEN SELDOM MAKE HISTORY.

LAUREL THATCHER ULRICH, HISTORIAN

You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

A. A. MILNE, AUTHOR

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more.

ALEXANDRE DUMAS, AUTHOR

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.

EMILY DICKINSON, POET

I might have been given a bad break, but I’ve got an awful lot to live for.

LOU GEHRIG, ATHLETE

LET US THINK ONLY OF THE GOOD DAYS THAT ARE TO COME.

AGATHA CHRISTIE, AUTHOR

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

LEONARDO DA VINCI, POLYMATH

Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn’t exist and never shall. There is only now.

CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI, AUTHOR

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

WILLIAM BLAKE, POET

Maybe everyone can live beyond what they’re capable of.

MARKUS ZUSAK, AUTHOR

While no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start now and make a new ending.

CHICO XAVIER, MEDIUM

Happiness is only real when shared.

JON KRAKAUER, AUTHOR

That glimmer of light, surrounded by so many shadows, seemed to say without words: Evil has not yet taken complete dominion. A spark of hope is still left.

ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER, AUTHOR

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.

LAURA INGALLS WILDER, AUTHOR

GREAT HEROES NEED GREAT SORROWS AND BURDENS, OR HALF THEIR GREATNESS GOES UNNOTICED.

PETER S. BEAGLE, AUTHOR

The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.

RANDY PAUSCH, COMPUTER SCIENTIST

I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for?

STEPHANIE LENNOX, AUTHOR

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

CHARLES DARWIN, NATURALIST

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

VICTOR HUGO, AUTHOR

HOPE SMILES FROM THE THRESHOLD OF THE YEAR TO COME, WHISPERING “IT WILL BE HAPPIER …”

ALFRED LORD TENNYSON, POET

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ABOUT THE FOREWORD AUTHOR

MIKE ROBBINS is the author of three books, Focus on the Good Stuff, Be Yourself; Everyone Else Is Already Taken, and Nothing Changes Until You Do. He delivers keynotes and seminars around the world for clients such as Google, Gap, Microsoft, Schwab, eBay, and many others. He and his work have been featured in O Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and the Huffington Post. His books have been translated into 12 different languages. For more about him and his work, visit www.mike-robbins.com.